Operation Goy Destroy: Israel-First Tightening Noose on Historic Christianity

They’re coming after us. All of us. And we need to be ready to push back hard.

JD Hall, Insight to Incite, Mar 16, 2026

Three institutions of American power made announcements this week. A White House commission declared your theology a problem. A United States senator declared your confession of faith a hate slogan. And the CIA declared a journalist a foreign agent for talking to the wrong country before the wrong war. The only question is if they’re coming for you next.

In today’s inciteful news, Paula White told a federal commissioner to stop promoting historic Christian theology on social media. Ted Cruz told a national Christian television audience that saying “Christ is King” is basically the same thing as saying you hate Jewish people. And the CIA has allegedly wiretapped a journalist’s phone for talking to Iranians (but it’s really for criticizing Israel). All three of these stories popped up over the weekend, and they all preach a single theme: the Israel-First lobby is more powerful than you think. But there’s an underlying story not readily available; I think we just figured out who the Deep State is. 

THE CIA COMES FOR TUCKER

Tucker Carlson announced this weekend that the Central Intelligence Agency has been reading his private text messages and is preparing a criminal referral to the Department of Justice against him for alleged violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. You know, FARA, it’s the government agency that requires every foreign lobby but one to file with them, so we know how much money is being spent where, trying to affect our political system. And the exception is Israel. 

Tucker’s alleged non-crime was talking to people in Iran before the United States went to war with Iran. That is the complete sum of the accusation. He had sources in a country the government was about to bomb, he communicated with those sources the way journalists have communicated with foreign sources since the printing press was invented, and the CIA has decided this makes him an unregistered foreign agent. In other words, it’s a targeted prosecution of an American patriot for criticizing the Industrial War Complex. And anyone who supports this is pretty evil. And if they support this and have ever uttered the phrase, “America First” or “Drain the Swamp,” they’re also stupid and inconsistent.

Tucker was one of the only prominent media voices arguing against the Iran war before it started. The New York Times reported he met with Trump three times in the weeks before the strike, lobbying against it each time. Trump, conversely, tried to get Tucker on board because he is not, despite his critics alleging it, without a great deal of influence in American conservatism. Trump ignored him, bombed Iran anyway, then called Tucker a traitor on social media for having tried. The CIA referral followed shortly after. The sequence isn’t subtle.

Some corners of the right greeted this news by calling it, “karma.” Rod Martin floated the idea that Tucker had it coming for claiming Israeli-paid influencers existed. Of course, that is not a claim. That is a documented fact with registered FARA filings attached, searchable on the Department of Justice website by anyone with a functioning browser. It’s also evident in a thousand different ways that the vast majority of Israel’s paid influencers are not registered through FARA, and prominent politicians like Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee support that exception. After all, in their mind, Israelis are exceptional, so they get exceptions. 

We have watched $145 million funnel into American evangelicalism from Israeli government and Jewish philanthropic sources in a single year, deployed with the specific operational purpose of reshaping what American Christians believe about a foreign government. We have watched pastor after pastor board a Potemkin propaganda tour, get wined and dined at Israeli government expense, collect their geopolitical talking points over a subsidized dinner in Jerusalem, and fly home to their congregations as self-described “public ambassadors” for the nation of Israel, which is precisely the kind of activity FARA was designed to require people to disclose. 

We have watched a thousand American pastors cycle through the Friends of Zion Museum ambassador program, founded and funded at Benjamin Netanyahu’s personal request, and return home with instructions to preach Israeli government foreign policy objectives from their pulpits. We have watched Netanyahu address the top fifty American Zionist organizations on video, hand them specific tactical marching orders, and instruct them to go to war against their own countrymen for the crime of noticing a genocide. 

Not one of those organizations has filed the FARA registration they are legally required to file. The same government allegedly preparing a criminal referral against Tucker Carlson for talking to Iranians has shown zero interest in the matter, and everyone involved knows it and is counting on it.

Meanwhile, we have watched AIPAC, an organization that exists in its current form specifically because John F. Kennedy forced its predecessor, the American Zionist Council, to register as a foreign agent, after which they dissolved, changed the name, waited for Kennedy’s assassination, and relaunched without registering. We have also watched them promise to spend hundreds of millions of dollars destroying America-First politicians at the ballot box, like Thomas Massie and James Fishback. The men most enthusiastic about siccing the CIA on Tucker Carlson were not long ago calling for the CIA to be dismantled for trying to run a shadow government over the American people, acting without congressional oversight, and even operating independently of the American President. 

This is what I call the John Kiriakou treatment. Kiriakou, if you recall, was a CIA counterterrorism officer who went on ABC News in 2007 and confirmed on the record that the United States government was waterboarding prisoners, that waterboarding was torture, and that this was official policy approved personally by the President. The CIA filed a criminal referral against him within twenty-four hours of that broadcast and spent five years assembling a case and eventually charged him under the Espionage Act, a law written in 1917 to catch German spies, deployed here against a man whose sin was telling Americans what their government was doing in their name. They threatened him with forty-five years in federal prison. He had a wife and five children. He pleaded to a single lesser charge and served thirty months. He was the only person jailed in connection with the CIA torture program, but not the architects, the practitioners, and not one lawyer who wrote the memos blessing it, but only the man who told the American public the truth. And now, it’s Tucker’s turn, a man who has done little but argue against a war, talked to sources on the other side of the conflict, and the same institution that jailed its own whistleblower for exposing torture now wants to put the screws to Tucker.

These are my thoughts about it: If you knew that the CIA was reading your texts, it would be reasonable to presume you were in their crosshairs. And if you presumed that you were in the CIA’s crosshairs, you’d worry about what the CIA does to people in their crosshairs, which often ranges between giving you a heart-attack or a fast-growing cancer, to having your vehicle launched into a tree or off a cliff, to having a plane go down under mysterious circumstances, or downloading illegal content onto your laptop. And if you were worried about those things, the best and wisest course of action is to scream bloody murder so that if indeed you commit suicide with three shots to the back of the head, people would see it as suspicious. I assumed that’s why Tucker made the video, and when I reached out to sources in Tucker’s camp, that hunch was confirmed.

THE RELIGIOUS LIBERTY COMMISSION THAT HATES YOUR RELIGION

Carrie Prejean Boller sat down with Tucker Carlson this week and described in detail what it looks like to serve on Trump’s White House Religious Liberty Commission while holding the theological convictions of the majority of Western Christianity over the last two thousand years. The answer is that it looks like being summoned to the principal’s office by a woman who preaches God will give you a Cadillac and clear your hemorrhoids if you sow her a seed-faith offering, and being told that your reading of the Abrahamic covenant is a political problem that needs to stop immediately.

According to Boller, Dan Patrick, the commission chair and Lt. Gov. of Texas, opened a conference call by informing her that her job was not to protect religious freedom, despite that being the commission’s stated mandate, as written into the executive order that created it. No, he told her that the commission’s job is “to protect the president’s reputation.” Boller told him she had understood her job was to protect religious liberties, at which Patrick guffawed and changed the subject. He instructed Boller to get off social media entirely because she had been posting things that were not in alignment with the president, Paula White, and certain other commission members. Paula White then chimed in and told Boller she really should not be posting about “Replacement Theology,” that criticizing Zionism was generating complaints, and that people were calling her an antisemite, and this was a problem. Ultimately, a federal commission tasked with protecting religious liberty had decided historic Christianity was not the kind of liberty it was assembled to protect.

In a particularly scumbag move, they also denied her lodging at the Museum of the Bible with the rest of the commissioners, forcing her to stay off-site despite the fact that she was traveling alone and had submitted a documented safety request. She ended up across the street in a hotel and had to recruit a Muslim woman from the commission’s advisory board to walk her over in the morning because the body devoted to religious liberty could not manage basic logistical dignity for one of its own commissioners. When she arrived, a former Ted Cruz staffer materialized and attempted to steer her into a private back-room meeting with Dan Patrick and Paula White before the hearing started. Boller agreed to come only if her companion, Samira, was permitted in the room. They dismissed Samira, so Boller dismissed the meeting and very wisely avoided a set-up.

At the hearing itself, Boller counted seventeen separate mentions of Israel, then asked the panel of Jewish witnesses whether any of them would condemn what Israel had done in Gaza. They would not. She then asked her now-famous question, whether not supporting the political state of Israel made her an antisemite, and asked for a yes or no. They declined to answer that as well. 

Tucker pressed the natural follow-up in the interview: Did Paula White or Dan Patrick ever open a Bible? Did they explain from any text, in any language, at any point, where her theology was wrong? Did they engage the doctrine at all? The answer was a clean and unambiguous no. They told her she could not hold her theology without explaining why, which means the official position of the Trump White House Religious Liberty Commission is that covenant theology, the framework of Augustine, Calvin, the Westminster Confession, the London Baptist Confession, the Heidelberg Catechism, and the broad Reformed tradition that millions of American Christians hold, is antisemitic and disqualifying for federal service. 

Every confessional congregation and Christian holding to historic orthodoxy in the U.S. just got quietly indicted by a prosperity preacher and a Texas lieutenant governor who, between them, have never successfully exegeted a single Bible verse.

TED CRUZ WOULD LIKE YOU NOT TO SAY THE THING

Senator Ted Cruz went on CBN News this weekend and delivered what may be the single most theologically illiterate statement made by a sitting United States senator in the current calendar year, which is an impressively competitive category (because he’s competing with himself). He told the entire audience of the Christian Broadcasting Network that the phrase “Christ is King” is, in his precise words, “almost an online code word that means, I hate the Jews.”

Cruz offered some terms that could replace it, so don’t worry. He opined that Christians should replace it with phrases like “Jesus loves you” or “Jesus saves,” which he indicated were the kinds of things said in his church growing up. Of course, neither of those phrases convey the same message as “Christ is King.” The former, “Jesus loves you,” isn’t necessarily accurate theologically, because the Bible doesn’t imply that God loves everyone, and in fact gives quite a number of people, or kinds of people, that God does not love. And “Jesus saves” is indeed true, but if one were to add “Jesus loves those who love God,” or “…saves those who believe in His son” then the Jewish Supremacists would lose their cotton-picking mind.

Cruz also volunteered that “Christ is King” appears to have originated online and invokes imagery of the Crusades. He had consulted his pastor at Houston’s First Baptist Church on the matter, and together they had apparently concluded that one of the oldest continuous confessions in Christian history was a recent internet phenomenon with a dangerous political valence.

But if you’ll permit me, I’d like to introduce Senator Cruz and his pastor to several facts that appear to have eluded them. Christus Rex (Christ is King) is a Latin liturgical title applied to Jesus Christ with documentary evidence stretching back to the patristic era, meaning the first several centuries of the church. Pope Pius XI formally established the Feast of Christ the King in 1925 with the encyclical Quas Primas, roughly a century before Senator Cruz’s concern about its online origins, and it was itself a formal recognition of a title already in continuous liturgical use. The Belgic Confession of 1561, the Heidelberg Catechism of 1563, the Westminster Confession of 1646, and substantially every Reformed and Lutheran confessional document produced in the last five centuries affirm the kingship of Christ over all nations and all governments as a foundational and non-negotiable article of Christian faith.

Even the watered-down and perennially woke Episcopal Church, of which Tucker Carlson was a communicant, has been singing “Crown Him with Many Crowns” since 1851. The phrase did not come from 4chan. It originated at the empty tomb, and Christians have been saying it in every language on every continent in every century since, and they were saying it long before anyone had a social media account or a carefully cultivated opinion about the modern Levant.

Cruz called replacement theology a heresy in the same interview, describing it as the belief that God’s promises to Israel are no longer valid, which is a Dispensationalist caricature of covenant theology so stripped of nuance it would earn a failing grade in any accredited seminary. Covenant theology does not teach that God broke his promises.

Rather, so-called “Replacement Theology” (better known as Covenant Theology or Fulfillment Theology) teaches that God kept them in Christ, for all who are united to Christ by faith, which is a distinction with enormous theological freight that Cruz shows no sign of having encountered in his years of Sunday school attendance. He named Tucker Carlson as the ringleader of a “venomous ideology targeting evangelical Christians,” demanded that JD Vance publicly denounce his own friend, and compared his personal stand to Ronald Reagan’s 1964 “Time for Choosing” speech, which is the variety of self-flattery that ought to require a permit.

What Cruz and White accomplished together this week is that they finally answered Carrie Prejean Boller’s question. She stood in a federal hearing room in February and asked a panel of witnesses, on the record, whether not supporting the political state of Israel made her an antisemite. They refused to answer. The answer arrived this week, assembled from a CBN interview and a White House phone call, delivered by a senator and a televangelist who, between them, cannot begin to contemplate a Biblical hermeneutic or interpretive feedback. If covenant theology is antisemitism and “Christ is King” is a hate slogan, then the roster of antisemites includes Augustine of Hippo, John Calvin, the entire Westminster Assembly, Charles Spurgeon, and probably every subscriber to Insight to Incite.

COMING FOR YOU

The Israel-First lobby isn’t a normal foreign interest group. Normal foreign interest groups hire lobbyists, throw fundraisers, and write strongly worded letters to congressional staffers. The Israel-First power apparatus funds federal commissions, plants theological hall monitors inside White House advisory bodies, deploys the CIA against journalists it dislikes, and gets United States senators to go on Christian television and instruct believers to retire their confessions of faith. AIPAC alone has promised to spend enough money in American elections to fund a small nation’s military budget, and it does this without filing a single FARA form, because the Justice Department that is currently preparing a criminal referral against Tucker Carlson for talking to Iranians has decided that particular paperwork requirement does not apply to them. This is not a lobby that plays by the same rules as everyone else, and after all, why should it? They are the chosen people, God’s favorites, and the rest of us have animal souls. 

What makes this weekend’s news particularly rich is that the people swinging the censorship hammer the hardest are doing it in the name of religious liberty, which is the kind of irony that would be funny if the consequences were not so serious. Their denunciations are accelerating, and the targets are multiplying. A year ago the line was that you could criticize Israeli government policy as long as you were careful to affirm Israel’s right to exist. Then the line moved, and criticizing the conduct of the war became evidence of antisemitism. Then the line moved again, and holding covenant theology became a problem. Now the line has moved to the confession of Christ’s kingship itself, and a sitting senator is on Christian television suggesting that believers swap out their historic creedal language for something less offensive to people whose alleged ancestors killed Christ. That’s a heck of a trajectory.

Israel is not like most nations, either, because this is a nation with a sophisticated and well-funded intelligence agency that has demonstrated repeatedly a willingness to go after critics in foreign countries through means that go well beyond strongly worded diplomatic cables. The influence operations documented in FARA filings are not the ceiling of what gets deployed against people who are inconvenient. Tucker Carlson is facing a CIA criminal referral. Carrie Prejean Boller was methodically isolated, ambushed, denied basic accommodations, and removed from a federal body by people coordinating against her before the hearing even started. These are not the actions of people who will shrug and move on when their preferred outcome is not achieved.

If they go after Tucker and a famous Miss America runner-up to destroy them, then the people who stayed quiet and kept their heads down will not escape scrutiny by doing so. They will simply be guaranteed that the next round of denunciations will find fewer people willing to stand in the way of them. Supporting truth-tellers is not charity. At this particular moment, with this particular lobby operating at this particular level of aggression, it is the most straightforwardly self-interested thing a Christian in this country can do.

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